APS business meeting
The Academic Physicians Section (APS) convenes biannually to consider business such as policymaking and the election of governing council members. APS business meetings are held in advance of each Annual and Interim Meeting of the AMA House of Delegates.
- 2024 APS Annual Meeting: June 7, Chicago (Read meeting highlights)
- 2024 APS Interim Meeting: Nov. 8, Orlando, Florida
APS webinars
The Impact of Private Equity on Medical Training
In this APS webinar, learn about private equity and its impact on medical training. John Andrews, MD, vice president, AMA graduate medical education innovations; John Duval, MBA, ACGME senior scholar in residence; and Jane M. Zhu, MD, MPP, MSHP, associate professor of medicine at the Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, provided an overview of emerging trends in private equity, impacts on health care and graduate medical education, and related AMA policy.
Physician Unionization: Might Physician Unions be a Useful Solution to Help Restore Physician Autonomy?
The Academic Physicians Section led a balanced discussion on the potential advantages and disadvantages of physician unionization in the academic mental center. Presenters included:
- Barak Richman, JD, PhD, author of the 2022 JAMA editorial, "Restoring Physician Authority in an Era of Hospital Dominance."
- Jay Hochsztein, MD, an attending radiologist at Jacobi Medical Center and second vice president at Doctors Council, a physician union in the New York City area.
- Anna Yap, MD, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of California-Davis School of Medicine, who led the creation of a residents' and fellows' union resident at UCLA.
Additional webinars
APS members also are invited to register for upcoming webinars and view recordings of past webinars from the AMA ChangeMedEd webinar series.
